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Contrapuntist

noun
1.
A composer who specializes in counterpoint.





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... the attention of Liszt, Chopin, and Thalberg. He remained in that city eighteen months, and then made some professional tours, in which he met with extraordinary success. In 1844 his parents removed to Berlin, and he was placed under Dehn, the famous contrapuntist, to study composition. From 1846 to 1848 he taught music in Pressburg and Vienna, and then went back to Russia. For eight years he studied and wrote in St. Petersburg, and at the end of that time had accumulated a mass of manuscripts destined ...
— The Standard Operas (12th edition) • George P. Upton


Words linked to "Contrapuntist" :   composer, counterpoint


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